Peter Burke
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Published May 20 2002
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Peter Burke describes how the study of visual sources has extended the range of historical enquiry.
Published March 21 2001
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Peter Burke looks at how images and the image-makers made the Sun King appear as the larger-than-life 'top ruler' of 17th-century Europe. Published February 1 1992
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by Denys Hay
Published August 31 1988
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by Bronislaw Geremek
Published February 1 1988
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Peter Burke on a pioneering historian of 'spirit of the age', who pushed back the frontiers of cultural history.
Published November 1 1986
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Historians ask, what constitutes the history of popular culture? Published December 1 1985
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Peter Burke discusses historical amnesia and cultural roots.
Published November 1 1985
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It used to be taken for granted that historians wrote narratives, but this is now a matter of debate.
Published May 31 1985
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Peter Burke considers the various works dealing with the Renaissance
Published March 31 1985
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To historians he seemed to be a philosopher, to philosophers an historian. But in spite of the difficulty of categorising the late Michel Foucault (1926-84), or perhaps because of that very difficulty, he has had a considerable impact on historical writing and deserves to have more.
Published March 1 1985
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by Rosalind and Christopher Brooke
Published November 1 1984
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Peter Burke examines various reassessments of the Italian Renaissance.
Published May 31 1984
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by Umberto Eco
Published April 30 1984
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Published March 1 1984
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